Fall 2009 meeting of the PNGS

Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar

2009 Fall Meeting
Portland State University
Portland, OR
Saturday and Sunday
Nov 7 and 8, 2009

Schedule

All talks will be in Neuberger Hall, Room 462.

Saturday, November 7
9:00-10:30	Registration, coffee, etc. Neuberger Hall, Room 344
10:30-11:35	John Olsen (University of Rochester) Three Dimensional Manifolds All of Whose Geodesics Are Closed (open problems)
11:45-12:50	Andrea Young (University of Arizona) Ricci Yang-Mills solitons on nilpotent Lie groups (open problems)
12:50-3:00	Lunch break
3:00-4:05	Alexander Givental (UC Berkeley) Virasoro Conjecture in Gromov-Witten theory
4:05-4:35	Coffee break
4:35-5:40	Weiyong He (University of Oregon) Lagrangian mean curvature flow of entire Lipschitz graphs
7:00	Dinner at Greek Cusina
Sunday, November 8
8:45-9:30	Coffee, etc. Neuberger Hall, Room 344
9:30-10:35	Tobias Colding (MIT) Singularities of mean curvature flow
10:35-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:05	John M. Lee (UW) The two-body problem at Asymptopia (open problems)

For more information about this meeting, contact Serge Preston (serge@mth.pdx.edu).

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